Nudists hold rummage sale to fight 'No Trespass' rule on public land

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»Play VideoLane County has stationed an employee near where people who used county land to access Glass Bar Island would park and walk. The county is enforcing "No Trespassing" on the land. Glass Bar Island is a boat-only state-owned park across the river from the county land.

“I want to go down there,” said nearby resident Jo Stephens at the sale on Sunday. “I want to be able to do down there if I feel like it and not have them close it off on me. What right to they have to sell it? I have the right to the property too.”

Stephens donated $50 to the sale and walked away with some Easter gifts for her grandchildren.

On Monday Lane County waste management manager Patti Hansen said officials were not aware of the rummage sales held off Seavey Loop Road. She said the activists did not ask permission to have the sale on their property, and that future sales will be considered trespassing.

“If they refuse to leave we’ll have to call the sheriff and take it from there,” said Hansen over the phone on Monday.

The department also parked a county employee in a marked truck near the "No Trespassing" signs.

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